Real wages

Wage Price Index annual change minus CPI annual change, the headline "are wages keeping up" series.

history mode ABS

What it answers

Are wages keeping pace with the cost of living? This subtracts ABS CPI annual change from the ABS Wage Price Index annual change to give the real wage growth series economists cite. A positive value means pay is outrunning prices; a negative value means real pay is falling.

Call it

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/real-wages

History mode

Add start_period and end_period to walk the series back through time instead of returning only the latest point.

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  'https://api.ausdata.io/v1/real-wages?start_period=2015-Q1&end_period=2024-Q4'

Returns

Every response uses the same {data, meta, links} envelope:

data: the answer, an object for a snapshot or a list when there is one row per entity.
meta: reference periods, retrieved_at, per-source attribution to reproduce on publish, and the stale flag.
links: a csv alternative when one is available.

Example response shape

{
  "data": { ... },
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/v1/real-wages",
    "query": { ... },
    "period": { "start": "...", "end": "..." },
    "row_count": 1,
    "retrieved_at": "<ISO-8601 UTC>",
    "sources": [
      { "name": "...", "url": "...", "attribution": "..." }
    ],
    "stale": false,
    "stale_reason": null,
    "server_version": "..."
  },
  "links": { "csv": null }
}

Draws from

This signal joins data from one source. Each source page lists the underlying datasets and canonical series.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Cross-source signals join multiple sources into one response. Reliability: a signal returns current data or a clear 503; it never serves an older vintage as the current answer.

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